STEM disciplines struggle to attract, nurture, and include diverse identities. As the STEM disciplines are presently engaged in self-reflection and self-assessment regarding the historical legacies of exclusion, accountability for foundational structures of exclusion, and self-reinforcing systems perpetuating exclusion, the struggle to attract, nurture, and include diverse identities is a foremost issue. Remarkably (or perhaps not so), STEM disciplines commonly fail to see the diverse identities among them. Populations representing diverse identities exist across the STEM spectrum, often overlooked or unacknowledged members within our disciplinary communities. Every STEM discipline has professional societies/organizations serving diverse identities of that discipline. Whereas several predominant STEM professional societies recently initiated stronger outreach to identity-serving organizations, many STEM professional societies and most STEM academic departments have not. If STEM disciplines sincerely desire to expand participation and develop more dynamic "ecosystems" of inclusion within STEM, then all STEM professional societies and all academic departments must develop partnership with identity-serving organizations in their disciplines. However, majority-dominated STEM societies and academic departments must declare allegiance to a Bill of Rights for identity-serving organizations to ensure they and their members thrive and flourish:
1) Partnership with identity-serving organizations must respect the identity and autonomy of the organizations and their members;
2) Partnership with identity-serving organizations must abide and assist the aspirations and desires of the organizations and their members;
3) Partnership with identity-serving organizations requires long-term commitments to the growth, well-being, and missions of those organizations and their members;
4) Partnership requires dominant societies to accept roles subservient to the missions of identity-serving organizations and their self-determination;
5) Partnership requires strong financial and logistical support without expectation of influence in the conduct or self-determination of the organization.
6) Accepting this Bill of Rights requires acknowledgment of diverse identities among us.
